On 20th of March in Kaunas the 4th International Conference „Making Industry 4.0 Real“ and Lithuanian Industry 4.0 star 2019: TOP nominated company presentations and awards took place.

 

Aiming to meet the industry’s need to deepen and share the best business practices and experiences related to transformation, the conference mostly focused on the practical side of changes in Lithuanian and foreign companies. Despite the fact that big part of Lithuanian manufacturing companies are already successfully using digital technologies in their everyday life, the ways to encourage them more actively use opportunities brought by changes were discussed at the Conference. The conference has offered insights of presenters from Germany, Estonia, Denmark, and have hosted experts from companies as Hella“, „Festo“, „Terekas“, SAP, ABB to share their stories and advice.

 

Project „4Change: Industry 4.0 Challange: Empowering Metalworkers For Smart Factories Of The Future!“ has been presented in one of the parralel sessions (section: Competetiveness).

 

Project manager Gintaras Rimša in his presentation stressed the importance of engineering competences, digital skills and ability to adapt in rapidly changing environment. This is the basis of future professions.

 

The Project 4Change is one of the tools aiming at improvement of industry workers skills. In this Project training programmes are formed and renewed which will help learners to acquire up to date digital skills, business competences and the usage of them in modern working environment.

 

Project 4Change is coming towards the end. At this stage piloting of results is in place. After that, training material and e-learning platform will be again improved according to the feedback of piloting participants. Final results will be introduced in the final Conference which will take place in Vilnius on 17th of October, 2019.

 

Gintaras Rimša, UAB Baltec CNC Technologies | Industry 4.0 challenge: empowering metalworkers for smart factories of the future – 4 Change